Fairfield Inn St. Louis Collinsville, IL

Travel Blogs from Collinsville

Visiting St. Louis

A travel blog entry by jencape

... we'll see... ;) I would have loved more time for us to spend in the Museum of Westward Expansion (which we visited after doing the tram ride to the top to take pictures), but we needed to move on to get to Kansas City at a reasonable time (and do our best to avoid rush hour). My favorite quote (as Amber had just watched a replica of an old-time silversmith talk to us) was "That was ...

WE GONE

A travel blog entry by ronber

Hey, we're on the road again. We finally got things in good enough shape to leave on
schedule on 10/14. We had a great visit with our friends, Phil & Doris Crain, in Cabot, AR.
We played Sticks Rummy every evening.s

We left there this morning and are now camped just south of Memphis in a very nice
campground, EZ DAZE RV Park. It was a short day on the road but tiring due to the wind,
not quite as bad as the day we left home but it still made ...

Mini vacation!

A travel blog entry by jonanddes

... diner food!!! After this we headed to the zoo. It was pretty warm out 77 degrees and the zoo was packed!!! We walked around for an hour or so then headed to a park nearby. We ended our night at the St. Louis bread Co. aka Panera Bread!!! It is the same place just different name here as it originated here in Missouri. When we got back to our hotel which had a balcony I kept hearing voices outside. I would go out but couldn't see anyone. Finally Jonathan went out ...

Could open my eyes today

A travel blog entry by tkdjedi1

... great food. And plenty of choices.

The museum also has outdoor sections including a large ball pit, more slides, more crawling and climbing sections. There is even a sort of carnival type place on the roof (extra charge) that we did not go to, but could see the huge ferris wheel. The kids got stuck in the ball pit (literally) and also braved climbing ...

Looking for kicks on Route Sixty-Styx

A travel blog entry by tedchaplin

So it begins. The 2, 448 mile trip along America's "Mother Road" – Route 66. Immortalized in song, film and literature; the journey from Chicago to Los Angeles will take me through 8 States – all blissfully away from the monotonous drone of the Interstate. (Well I say 'all’, but apparently since the road was decommissioned in 1985 small sections have fallen into disrepair and consequently are undrivable in anything ...